Research Catalog

Title

The Cambridge history of the book in Britain.

Publication

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999-2019.

Supplementary Content

• Book review (H-Net)
• Contributor biographical information
• Publisher description

Items in the Library & Off-site

Holdings

Location

• Schwarzman Building - Main Reading Room 315

Call Number

• JFL 01-214

Library Has

• 2-5,7-

Details

Additional Authors

• Gameson, Richard
• Morgan, Nigel J.
• Thomson, Rodney M.
• Hellinga, Lotte
• Trapp, J. B. (Joseph Burney)
• Barnard, John, 1936-
• McKitterick, David
• Bell, Maureen
• Suarez, Michael F., 1960-
• Turner, Michael L.
• Nash, Andrew, 1972-
• Squires, Claire
• Willison, I. R. (Ian R.)

Description

7 volumes : illustrations; 24 cm

Summary

"The history of the book offers a distinctive form of access to the ways in which human beings have sought to give meaning to their own and others' lives. Our knowledge of the past derives mainly from texts. Landscape, architecture, sculpture, painting and the decorative arts have their stories to tell and may themselves be construed as texts; but oral tradition, manuscripts, printed books, and those other forms of inscription and incision such as maps, music and graphic images have a power to report even more directly on human experience and the events and thoughts which shaped it. The seven volumes of the History of the Book in Britain will help explain how these texts were created, why they took the forms they did, their relations with other media, and what influence they had on the minds and actions of those who heard, read or viewed them. Its range, too - in time, place and the great diversity of the conditions of text production, including reception - challenges any attempt to define its limits and give an account adequate to its complexity. It addresses, whether by period, country, genre or technology, widely disparate fields of enquiry, each of which demands and attracts its own forms of scholarship. The Cambridge History of the Book in Britain seeks to represent much of that variety. The volumes investigate the creation, material production, dissemination and reception of texts, effectively plotting the intellectual history of Britain."--

Subjects

• Books
• Books > Great Britain > History
• 400-1600
• Books > Great Britain > History > 1450-1600
• History
• Great Britain
• Books > Great Britain > History > 400-1450

Genre/Form

History.

Note

• Volumes published out of numerical order. Volume 3 was the first to be published, in 1999, followed by volume 4 (2002), volume 2 (2008), volumes 5-6 (2009), and volume 1 (2012). Volume 7 was published in 2019.
• First paperback editions of volumes 2, 3, 5 and 6 published in 2014.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

Contents

volume. 1. 400-1100 / edited by Richard Gameson -- volume 2. 1100-1400 / edited by Nigel J. Morgan and Rodney M. Thomson -- volume 3. 1400-1557 / edited by Lotte Hellinga and J.B. Trapp -- volume 4. 1557-1695 / edited by John Barnard and D.F. McKenzie, with the assistance of Maureen Bell -- volume 5. 1695-1830 / edited by Michael F. Suarez and Michael L. Turner -- volume 6. 1830-1914 / edited by David McKitterick -- volume 7. The twentieth century and beyond / edited by Andrew Nash, Claire Squires, I.R. Willison.

Call Number

JFL 01-214

ISBN

• 9780521583459
• 0521583454
• 9780521782180
• 052178218X
• 9781107636767
• 1107636760
• 9780521573467
• 0521573467
• 9781107698758
• 1107698758
• 9780521661829
• 052166182X
• 1107657857
• 9781107657854
• 9780521810173
• 0521810175
• 9781107626805
• 1107626803
• 9780521866248
• 0521866243
• 9781107668294
• 1107668298
• 9781107010604
• 1107010608
• 9780511466731
• 0511466730
• 9780511468445
• 051146844X

LCCN

98004398

OCLC

38856036

Title

The Cambridge history of the book in Britain.

Publisher

Cambridge, UK ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1999-2019.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references and indexes.

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Sample text

Table of contents

Book review (H-Net)

Contributor biographical information

Publisher description

Chronological Term

400-1600

Added Author

Gameson, Richard, editor.

Morgan, Nigel J., editor.

Thomson, Rodney M., editor.

Hellinga, Lotte, editor.

Trapp, J. B. (Joseph Burney), editor.

Barnard, John, 1936- editor.

McKitterick, David, editor.

Bell, Maureen, editor.

Suarez, Michael F., 1960- editor.

Turner, Michael L., editor.

Nash, Andrew, 1972- editor.

Squires, Claire, editor.

Willison, I. R. (Ian R.), editor.

Research Call Number

JFL 01-214